The Current for Sept. 3, 2021
Today on The Current:
There are currently more than 20,000 new daily cases of COVID-19 in Florida, and the return to school last month has seen children hospitalized with the virus. But the state has no public health restrictions in place, and funding has been withheld from schools that require masks in class. Guest host Anthony Germain talks to Chrissy Krampert, who has three daughters under the age of 12 in a school where masks are not required. We also hear from Vickie Cartwright, the interim superintendent of Broward County Public Schools, which has had funding withheld by the state; and discuss the risks to kids' health with Dr. Mobeen Rathore, chief of the pediatric infectious diseases and immunology unit at Wolfson Children's Hospital in Jacksonville.
Plus, the Globe and Mail's Health Columnist André Picard weighs in on vaccine passports, rising COVID-19 numbers in Canada, and why Ivermectin use is up, even though it doesn't work.
Then, Amanda Tidmarsh found a message in a bottle on the beach in Wales. Now she's looking for the sender: a Canadian fisherman named John Graham. [Correction: Since this segment aired, The Current has seen a photo of the letter, which refers to the fisherman as Craig Drover, not John Graham.]
And this summer we're bringing you a few of the best original CBC podcasts. Today it's the final episode of Recall: How to Start a Revolution, featuring the story of revolt and political violence in Quebec during the 1960s.
